BILL NUMBER: AB 2140	CHAPTERED  09/29/00

	CHAPTER   832
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   SEPTEMBER 29, 2000
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR   SEPTEMBER 28, 2000
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY   AUGUST 31, 2000
	PASSED THE SENATE   AUGUST 30, 2000
	AMENDED IN SENATE   AUGUST 28, 2000
	AMENDED IN SENATE   AUGUST 18, 2000
	AMENDED IN SENATE   JUNE 20, 2000
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   APRIL 4, 2000

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Keeley
   (Coauthors:  Assembly Members Jackson, Longville, and Wiggins)
   (Coauthors:  Senators Costa, Figueroa, and Solis)

                        FEBRUARY 23, 2000

   An act to amend Section 65080 of, and to add Section 65080.3 to,
the Government Code, relating to transportation.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2140, Keeley.  Regional transportation plans.

   Existing law requires designated transportation planning agencies
to prepare and adopt a regional transportation plan that includes a
policy element, an action element, and a financial element.  Existing
law requires the plan to be directed at achieving a coordinated and
balanced regional transportation system.
   This bill would revise the requirements for the policy and
financial elements of the transportation plan and would limit those
revised requirements to transportation planning agencies with
populations that exceed 200,000 persons.
   The bill would authorize those agencies, except as specified, to
prepare at least one alternative planning scenario, and would list
the requirements for that alternative planning scenario.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  The Legislature finds and declares both of the
following:
   (a) The Legislature is concerned about increasing traffic
congestion and its impacts on California's economic growth and
quality of life.
   (b) This act is intended to improve California's long-range
transportation planning by including the preparation of alternative
long-range transportation plans that have the possibility of offering
methods to reduce traffic congestion.
  SEC. 2.  Section 65080 of the Government Code is amended to read:
   65080.  (a) Each transportation planning agency designated under
Section 29532 or 29532.1 shall prepare and adopt a regional
transportation plan directed at achieving a coordinated and balanced
regional transportation system, including, but not limited to, mass
transportation, highway, railroad, maritime, bicycle, pedestrian,
goods movement, and aviation facilities and services.  The plan shall
be action-oriented and pragmatic, considering both the short-term
and long-term future, and shall present clear, concise policy
guidance to local and state officials.  The regional transportation
plan shall consider factors specified in Section 134 of Title 23 of
the United States Code.  Each transportation planning agency shall
consider and incorporate, as appropriate, the transportation plans of
cities, counties, districts, private organizations, and state and
federal agencies.
   (b) The regional transportation plan shall include all of the
following:
   (1) A policy element that describes the transportation issues in
the region, identifies and quantifies regional needs, and describes
the desired short-range and long-range transportation goals, and
pragmatic objective and policy statements.  The objective and policy
statements shall be consistent with the funding estimates of the
financial element.  The policy element of transportation planning
agencies with populations that exceed 200,000 persons may quantify a
set of indicators including, but not limited to, all of the
following:
   (A) Measures of mobility and traffic congestion, including, but
not limited to, vehicle hours of delay per capita and vehicle miles
traveled per capita.
   (B) Measures of road and bridge maintenance and rehabilitation
needs, including, but not limited to, roadway pavement and bridge
conditions.
   (C) Measures of means of travel, including, but not limited to,
percentage share of all trips (work and nonwork) made by all of the
following:
   (i) Single occupant vehicle.
   (ii) Multiple occupant vehicle or carpool.
   (iii) Public transit including commuter rail and intercity rail.
   (iv) Walking.
   (v) Bicycling.
   (D) Measures of safety and security, including, but not limited
to, total injuries and fatalities assigned to each of the modes set
forth in subparagraph (C).
   (E) Measures of equity and accessibility, including, but not
limited to, percentage of the population served by frequent and
reliable public transit, with a breakdown by income bracket, and
percentage of all jobs accessible by frequent and reliable public
transit service, with a breakdown by income bracket.
   (F) The requirements of this section may be met utilizing existing
sources of information.  No additional traffic counts, household
surveys, or other sources of data shall be required.
   (G) For the region defined in Section 66502, the indicators
specified in this paragraph shall be supplanted by the performance
measurement criteria established pursuant to subdivision (e) of
Section 66535, if that subdivision is added to the Government Code by
Section 1 of Senate Bill 1995 of the 1999-2000 Regular Session.
   (2) An action element that describes the programs and actions
necessary to implement the plan and assigns implementation
responsibilities.  The action element may describe all projects
proposed for development during the 20-year life of the plan.
   The action element shall consider congestion management
programming activities carried out within the region.
   (3) (A) A financial element that summarizes the cost of plan
implementation constrained by a realistic projection of available
revenues.  The financial element shall also contain recommendations
for allocation of funds.  A county transportation commission created
pursuant to Section 130000 of the Public Utilities Code shall be
responsible for recommending projects to be funded with regional
improvement funds, if the project is consistent with the regional
transportation plan.  The first five years of the financial element
shall be based on the five-year estimate of funds developed pursuant
to Section 14524.  The financial element may recommend the
development of specified new sources of revenue, consistent with the
policy element and action element.
   (B) The financial element of transportation planning agencies with
populations that exceed 200,000 persons may include a project cost
breakdown for all projects proposed for development during the
20-year life of the plan that includes total expenditures and related
percentages of total expenditures for all of the following:
   (i) State highway expansion.
   (ii) State highway rehabilitation, maintenance, and operations.
   (iii) Local road and street expansion.
   (iv) Local road and street rehabilitation, maintenance, and
operation.
   (v) Mass transit, commuter rail, and intercity rail expansion.
   (vi) Mass transit, commuter rail, and intercity rail
rehabilitation, maintenance, and operations.
   (vii) Pedestrian and bicycle facilities.
   (viii) Environmental enhancements and mitigation.
   (ix) Research and planning.
   (x) Other categories.
   (c) Each transportation planning agency shall adopt and submit,
every three years beginning by September 1, 2001, an updated regional
transportation plan to the California Transportation Commission and
the Department of Transportation.  The plan shall be consistent with
federal planning and programming requirements.  A transportation
planning agency that does not contain an urbanized area may at its
option adopt and submit a regional transportation plan once every
four years beginning by September 1, 2001.  Prior to adoption of the
regional transportation plan, a public hearing shall be held, after
the giving of notice of the hearing by publication in the affected
county or counties pursuant to Section 6061.
  SEC. 3.  Section 65080.3 is added to the Government Code, to read:

   65080.3.  (a) Each transportation planning agency with a
population that exceeds 200,000 persons may prepare at least one
"alternative planning scenario" for presentation to local officials,
agency board members, and the public during the development of the
triennial regional transportation plan and the hearing required under
subdivision (c) of Section 65080.
   (b) The alternative planning scenario shall accommodate the same
amount of population growth as projected in the plan but shall be
based on an alternative that attempts to reduce the growth in traffic
congestion, make more efficient use of existing transportation
infrastructure, and reduce the need for costly future public
infrastructure.
   (c) The alternative planning scenario shall be developed in
collaboration with a broad range of public and private stakeholders,
including local elected officials, city and county employees,
relevant interest groups, and the general public.  In developing the
scenario, the agency shall consider all of the following:
   (1) Increasing housing and commercial development around transit
facilities and in close proximity to jobs and commercial activity
centers.
   (2) Encouraging public transit usage, ridesharing, walking,
bicycling, and transportation demand management practices.
   (3) Promoting a more efficient mix of current and future job
sites, commercial activity centers, and housing opportunities.
   (4) Promoting use of urban vacant land and "brownfield"
redevelopment.
   (5) An economic incentive program that may include measures such
as transit vouchers and variable pricing for transportation.
   (d) The planning scenario shall be included in a report evaluating
all of the following:
   (1) The amounts and locations of traffic congestion.
   (2) Vehicle miles traveled and the resulting reduction in vehicle
emissions.
   (3) Estimated percentage share of trips made by each means of
travel specified in subparagraph (C) of paragraph (1) of subdivision
(b) of Section 65080.
   (4) The costs of transportation improvements required to
accommodate the population growth in accordance with the alternative
scenario.
   (5) The economic, social, environmental, regulatory, and
institutional barriers to the scenario being achieved.
   (e) If the adopted regional transportation plan already achieves
one or more of the objectives set forth in subdivision (c), those
objectives need not be discussed or evaluated in the alternative
planning scenario.
   (f) The alternative planning scenario and accompanying report
shall not be adopted as part of the regional transportation plan, but
it shall be distributed to cities and counties within the region and
to other interested parties, and may be a basis for revisions to the
transportation projects that will be included in the regional
transportation plan.
   (g) Nothing in this section grants transportation planning
agencies any direct or indirect authority over local land use
decisions.
   (h) This section does not apply to a transportation plan adopted
on or before September 1, 2001, proposed by a transportation planning
agency with a population of less than 1,000,000 persons.
